Live by Assisted Suicide, Die by Assisted Suicide

So, Vicki Wood went the way of her husband. Wait a very short time (like, by Monday) and she'll be another heroine for the pro-death crowd. Such care, such love, such purpose. 'Scuse me, I feel a throw-up coming on.

From the ever-sympathetic BBC:

A woman convicted of trying to kill her husband in 1998 in what she said was an attempted "mercy killing" has died in an assisted suicide in Switzerland.

Vicki Wood, 67, from Harbertonford, Devon, who had a lung disease, spoke of her intention to die with assistance from Dignitas five years ago. more